[IAEP] Dailymotion, Ogg video, and Sugar

[Lucian Branescu]

Youtube also has a demo of <video> usage. http://youtube.com/html5

2009/5/31 Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org>:
> As many of you have likely seen, Dailymotion is transcoding all of their
> videos to OggTheora in parallel to their current videos served via flash.
>
> As Chris Blizzard writes:
>
>> Today Dailymotion, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced
>> support for open video. They’ve put out a press release, a blog post on the
>> new openvideo site as well as a demo site where you can see some of the
>> things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5.  They are
>> automatically transcoding all of the content that their Motion
>> MakersOfficial Users create and expect to have around 300,000 videos
>> transcoded into the open Ogg Theora and Vorbis formats.  You can view the
>> site they have up at openvideo.dailymotion.com.
>
> Previously Dailymotion had set up an embedded ogg site for kids, especially
> kids on XO's using free software at http://olpc.dailymotion.org.  At the
> time there was some discussion of a video upload activity so children could
> share videos via Dailymotion.
>
> In many countries, bandwidth limitations makes this really unfeasible.  But
> we've recently seen that Uruguay seems to use a lot of web-video:
> http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/believing_in_dreams_dokeos_and.html
> .  Uruguay also shares news internally when they can via flash video:
> http://rapceibal-colonia.blogspot.com/2009/05/rap-ceibal-en-las-plazas.html
>
> Is there renewed interest in making video sharing easier on the XO? What
> would a video upload activity look like?
>
> --Sww
>
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